The further I read the more I cringed. In that respect the fic did its job in depicting Caroline's last moments with ruthless efficiency. People have noted additional Caroline script features a rape-like context and it comes out here in all its stark glory. Cave Johnson's degradation behind the scenes of his strong yet increasingly feeble recorded messages is a nice touch. I loved this awakening of Glados and how even though the memories haven't translated into binary the emotions sure have. Glados certainly is an unforgiving, grudge-holding, passive aggressive AI lady.

I absolutely adore this story. It could quite honestly fit into the canon Portal storyline and make up for all those voice clips we missed out on. The way you wrote Cave and Caroline is so spot-on, and I like that you didn't just jump into a sappy romance between them like some fics tend to do. Instead, it was realistic and raw, with Cave's crippling dedication to Aperture winning out over all else, including Caroline.

All in all, this was lovely, and thanks for writing something like this :)

I was just telling this story to a friend, but couldn't for the life of me remember it's name, So after five ish minuets of searching for it, I found it. Then to my dismay I realized it never reviewed this excellent story.

I was pretty much speechless at the end, no sure what to say or think, which is a good thing. Something so mind boggling that it renders me speechless is a very good thing indeed. Even now, not much to say except, it was dark and very in character. I could believe this was in fact the origin of GLaDOS.

I'm horrible at reviewing, especially one-shots, but this was so well done that I'd feel even more horrible not reviewing.

I think you really captured the Portal 2 atmosphere with this. That's a huge compliment right there, because Portal 2 had some amazing atmosphere. I like how you took what little canon there is about Caroline and expanded it into a believable person and story. I also loved the ending, very chilling, very fitting. Great job!